What are going to be the big debates for 2012?
I just wrote a piece on the Technophobia blog about what I think some of the big themes of debate in digital business and innovation are going to be this year. Or perhaps better: what underlying issues will be driving them.
I’ve highlighted just five concepts, which are by no means intended to be comprehensive. They are:
- Human augmentation and the capability gap.
- Context and distraction.
- Scope and ‘delineation’.
- Monopolies and closed platforms.
- New business models going mainstream.
If you’re interested in any of these things, please read the post and comment if you disagree or have any questions.. :)
On AI’s tipping point…
Last night I watched my wife have a conversation with a computer. Not a particularly sophisticated conversation, as conversations go, but it felt like a conversation to her and that’s perhaps more important.
She has just received a new phone upgrade - an iPhone4S, and, while she was playing around with it on the sofa next to me, I casually asked her whether she realised the phone was intelligent?
“What do you mean?” she said.
